[Paul Ross]

My point was that a 10% rise in housing prices can't be said to be equal to a 10% jump in CPI (or 42% of 10%) because most people who own homes have owned them for a while.

And that point fails. First, you disregard the impacts on those actively buying houses...as if there is nothing to see there. Then you ignore the fact that at some point, everyone needs to change housing. Adding on rooms. Fixing things (windows, roofs, siding, sidewalks, driveways, garage floors, heating and A/C plants, flooring) Moving. Etc. And if the production cost has gone through the roof, well, that is only the problem of those people buying houses. But the impact of a "bubble" is far beyond that narrow segment. So again, your logic is flawed right at the conceptual level. And you have shown no actual competing data. Remember, the truism that no man is an island? Your febrile attempt to say the opposite is Wrong.

And how is it that your own data dumps are not totally irrelevant...particularly since they lack relevant or pertinent data? Mine are at least relevant, hence you merely attempt to disparage them...and never do actually or honestly "slog through them." Biassed to the end, Todd. Your nit-picking never has won a single issue.

And BTW, vis-a-vis language: You alone are responsible for your own personal insecurity with an impoverished and anemic vocabulary.

[Toddsterpatriot]

And that point fails.

So you claim a 10% rise in housing prices translates into what % jump in CPI?

First, you disregard the impacts on those actively buying houses...as if there is nothing to see there.

What % are actively buying houses? What is the impact on them?

Then you ignore the fact that at some point, everyone needs to change housing.

If I don't change houses for 10 years, housing inflation does not impact me until 2015.

Adding on rooms. Fixing things (windows, roofs, siding, sidewalks, driveways, garage floors, heating and A/C plants, flooring) Moving. Etc.

My point about housing said nothing about repairs. Obviously if repairs are more expensive that impacts CPI.

And if the production cost has gone through the roof, well, that is only the problem of those people buying new houses

That's what I said.

And you have shown no actual competing data.

Look to your own data dump. In post #212, the BLS numbers are superior to the goldbug numbers. Does BLS count as competing data?

And how is it that your own data dumps are not totally irrelevant.

I don't think I've ever dumped more than a page in any post. You regularly dump pages and pages with no indication of what you think the relevant portion might be. Formatting is your friend.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Your nit-picking never has won a single issue.

Your misunderstanding of money supply was far from a nit, BTW. How's that dollar debauchment working for you lately?